Roman Music Therapy Services

🎵 Here's to the dads who make life's music so much sweeter! 🎵

Happy Father's Day to all the incredible fathers out there. Your love and guidance are the best support we could ask for. 💙

🎶Comment a song that makes you think of your Dad!

🏳️‍🌈 Celebrating Pride with the power of music!

💛 Our team at Roman Music Therapy Services has curated a special playlist filled with uplifting and empowering tracks to honor and support the LGBTQ+ community. This playlist features songs by q***r artists and q***r anthems.

🎧 Share this playlist and let the music inspire love, acceptance, and unity.

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🌈 Celebrating Pride Month with love, music, and inclusivity!

🎶 At Roman Music Therapy Services, we proudly embrace diversity within our staff, stakeholders, clients, and their families, with a special celebration of the LGBTQ+ community.

Together, we create a harmonious environment where everyone is welcomed and celebrated.

💜 Join us in honoring and supporting the beautiful spectrum of identities and stories that make our community so vibrant.

Stay tuned for a Pride Playlist created by our team!

👇 For now, let us know YOUR favorite song that celebrates the LGBTQ+ community in the comments!

🎵 Reflecting on the incredible Project Harmony showcase last week!

🎤 Our performers came together to showcase their unique abilities, finding creative ways to highlight their strengths through singing, playing percussion, and performing on the guitar.

💜 This was our third and final showcase of the school year. Thank you to everyone who came out and supported us!

💚 This year, our Project Harmony Transitions choir was made up of students from the Wakefield Public Schools POST Academy and the Stoneham Public Schools Shine program.

If you know a transitions program that would like to join the Project Harmony choir for next school year, contact us to find out more!

Things got competitive this morning at Roman Music Therapy Services Field Day!

Field Day was even complete with a visit from the ice cream truck! 😋

We had Team Tempo-Tantrum (blue), Team B Sharps (red), Team Fer-mantras (yellow) and Team Treble (green) competing for the trophies!

Which team would you root for?

🎶 We had an incredible night at our Music Therapy Client Showcase last month!

🌟 We are so proud of all our amazing performers who poured their hearts into every note and rhythm.

Thank you to the New England School of Performing Arts for having us in your wonderful space!

Swipe through to see photos from the unforgettable performances! 📸

Thank you to everyone who came to support!

Let's give our performers some extra love—drop your congratulations in the comments! 🎉

Come visit our table at the Woburn Early Childhood Fair next weekend, where you can learn about local early childhood resources for families with young children!

Event Details:
📅 Date: Saturday, June 1st
🕖 Time: 10am - 12pm
📍 Location: Spence Farm, 41 Wyman St. Woburn, MA

✨ Last week, the Roman Music Therapy Services team had an amazing time attending the Tri-State SHRM Conference (Strategic Human Resource Management) at Mohegan Sun in Connecticut!

It was a fantastic opportunity to connect with fellow HR professionals and share the impact of our Staff Beats programs.

🎶 We're passionate about using music to cultivate positive company culture and were thrilled to see the excitement around our approach.

Check out the photos of our team and our lucky raffle winners who took home headphones and a ukulele!

If you know any Human Resource professionals, share this post so that they can learn more about our Staff Beats program on our website: https://bit.ly/3ywXV8y 🎵🤝

The Roman Music Therapy Services team has been busy representing the company at many events this spring!

Last week, Meredith, Jen, and Rae hosted a table at the Associated Industries of Massachusetts (AIM) Annual Meeting in Cambridge, MA. AIM is "a group of visionary Massachusetts business owners formed...to promote economic opportunity, innovation, and entrepreneurship...AIM strives to bring positive changes for the businesses and citizens of Massachusetts."

At this meeting, our team promoted our Staff Beats program, which is a program designed to use music experiences of creativity and community building to support a strong company culture.

Would your employees benefit from our Staff Beats program? Find out more about our offerings on our website: https://bit.ly/4bvCtyY

Roman Music Therapy Services is thrilled to announce that we are hosting a showcase featuring some of our talented music therapy clients!

Join us for a night of music and celebration!

Event Details:
📅 Date: Thursday, May 23rd
🕖 Time: 6:30pm
📍 Location: New England School of Performing Arts, 55 Concord Street, North Reading, MA

Come show your support and witness the transformative impact of music on individuals' lives.

While we will not be collecting tickets at the show, due to limited capacity, we kindly ask audience members to secure your spot through Eventbrite in advance: https://bit.ly/3UWpbX4

We are excited to announce that availability is opening up for new or returning clients to schedule music therapy sessions!

We have availability for summer series for individuals or groups at our center in Wakefield or offsite at a nearby location.

If you are interested in a summer music therapy series, contact our office at 781-224-3300 or at [email protected] for our availability and to secure a time!

Happy Mother's Day to all the incredible moms out there! 💐🌸

Today and every day, we celebrate the strength, love, and nurturing spirit of mothers everywhere.

From all of us at Roman Music Therapy Services, thank you for all that you do.

❤️ You are cherished and appreciated beyond measure.

Earlier this week, Roman Music Therapy Services' Founder and CEO, Meredith Pizzi, presented virtually at the Massachusetts Early Intervention Consortium Conference!

Meredith's presentation "The Music In Me!" informed Early Intervention professionals about using music therapy strategies and interventions with young children.

Were you at the conference? Let us know so we can stay connected!

We are excited to announce that Roman Music Therapy Services, LLC will be exhibiting at 2024 Tri-State SHRM Annual Conference - The Changing Face of HR on May 13 - 15, 2024. 🎉🎉 Like or comment if you’ll be there! , , , - via Event Platform

🌸April showers bring May flowers!

🥳 Last week, our team built bouquets and celebrated our May birthdays during our weekly team meeting!

At Roman Music Therapy Services, we are grateful to work with a team that takes a moment for some fun at the end of our busy work weeks!

What's your favorite spring flower?

Lead Music Therapist, Billie Junget, was recently recognized as a hero through TILL, Inc.'s "April Madness"!

💜 Their theme this year is "Not all heroes wear capes," and the team at TILL, Inc. is recognizing the superhero in all of us.

TILL stands for "Toward Independent Living and Learning", and is a human service agency that has many community-based programs to "help people reach their full potential and attain an optimal quality of life."

Roman Music Therapy Services is grateful to work with many clients who are supported through TILL, Inc.

Billie currently provides music therapy for the residents in a group home in Lynnfield, MA - they love their sessions with Billie!

👏 Let's congratulate Billie in the comments!

🌷 Registration for the Spring 2 Session of Sprouting Melodies is open and ready for you and your little one!

The Spring 2 Session will begin May 3rd and run through June 22nd. All classes will take place at our studio in Wakefield.

🗓️ DATES:
May 3rd - June 22nd (no class on May 25th for Memorial Day weekend)

TIMES:
🌞 Friday:
- 10am Sprouting Melodies 3 (18mos-3yrs)
- 11am Sprouting Melodies 1&2 (0-18mos)

🌞 Saturday:
- 9am Sprouting Melodies 3 (18mos-3yrs)
- 10am Family Sprouts (0-5yrs)
- 11am Sprouting Melodies 1&2 (0-18mos)

You can register via this link:
https://bit.ly/3y30qza

Today is Administrative Professionals Day! We want to give a special shoutout to the administrators at Roman Music Therapy Serivces who work hard behind the scenes to support our music therapy programming! Thank you to Jen, Jessica, Angie, Shannon, Lauren, Rae, and Julia!

Let's give our administrative team some love in the comments!

You aren't a music therapist, but you want to learn how to use music in your work with young children!

"I've Got the Music in Me" is an online course just for you.

This course provides practical strategies and techniques to help you to support, engage, and effectively use music to support the development and growth of young children.

Register for this asynchronous course at https://bit.ly/3JaOcXK

Did you know? Roman Music Therapy Services has a partner company called Raising Harmony. Raising Harmony provides training resources for music therapists and early childhood professionals.

Founded by two music therapists, Meredith Pizzi, MPA, MT-BC and Elizabeth Schwartz, MA, LCAT, MT-BC, Raising Harmony provides a platform for conversation and learning about music and development.

As an organization, Raising Harmony™ is a center that:

🎵Bridges the gap between music therapy education and early childhood practice

👶 Sponsors continuing education, business packages and referrals to music therapists interested in working with young children

👨‍👩‍👦 Guides parents musically through the early childhood adventure, showing them how music can ignite social skills and enhance family dynamics

💿 Provides programs, products and resources to educators and other professionals who work with young children

🎸Builds community by sharing ideas and inspiration with Sprouting Melodies Providers® (SMPs) through online forums and live events

Check out the Raising Harmony website to learn more about what we have to offer!
https://bit.ly/3vJPBl4

It's World Music Therapy Week! This week we celebrate all things music therapy - from our music therapists, to our clients, and to our students, professors, and leaders in the field.

Take a moment to share a magical musical moment that you have experienced as a result of music therapy. We would love to hear about it!

Check out some of the music therapy groups that we are providing within our community!

Roman Music Therapy Services is grateful to have a long-time partnership with Communitas, "a non-profit organization that delivers individualized, family-centered services, programs, and support for people of all abilities, across their lifespan and in their communities."

Currently, we are providing a series of music therapy groups for youth and adults through the recreation programs at Communitas, and we work with many individual clients that are supported through Communitas as well!

Shoutout to Communitas for all that you do!

Share this post with a friend who needs to know about Communitas and all their great work!

Congratulations to the Embark Program Choir at Salem State University for their wonderful performance last week!

Music Therapist, Billie Junget, led the choir in performing Disney songs from The Little Mermaid, The Muppet Movie, Moana, and High School Musical.

The Embark Program is part of the North Shore Education Consortium's SOAR Program. This program is a transition program for students ages 18-22, with a goal to assist students in preparing for the transition to college and the workforce. Incorporating music therapy into their program provides the opportunity to use music to help the students develop essential life skills.

Thank you to everyone involved in making this showcase a success!

If you were in the audience, show the performers some love in the comments!

Today is World Autism Awareness Day, a part of Autism Acceptance Month in the month of April.

Music Therapy can greatly benefit some people with autism.

According to the American Music Therapy Association, Inc.'s fact sheet, the "engaging nature and accessibility of music often elicits positive responses of individuals with ASD (Kern, 2014)...Music therapy interventions focus on enhancing social, communicative, motor/sensory, emotional, and academic/cognitive functioning, or music skills in individuals with ASD."

Here at Roman Music Therapy Services, we know this to be true.

We are lucky to work with such wonderful clients who spark so much joy and creativity in our work every day!

Tag a person you know who celebrates people on the spectrum!

Do you want to see what Sprouting Melodies is all about! Join us next Saturday, April 6th, for a drop-in class!

Sprouting Melodies is for children ages 0-5 and their caregivers.

It is a welcoming space for children of all abilities.

Through song, instrument play and movement, these classes stimulate and enhance musical, social, physical, and emotional growth and development.

Registration is required! Drop-in rate is $20 per child. https://bit.ly/3IXsjLu

Members of our team attended the Southeastern Region of the American Music Therapy Association Music Therapy Conference! This year the theme was: Tuned into Wellness - Connect. Learn. Grow.

🤩 At the conference, we enjoyed the continuing education opportunities, presentations, exploring music therapists' research projects, and more!

RMTS was able to have dinner and hit the dance floor with music therapy students from the University of Alabama School of Music.

From the organizers:
"Welcome to the "A", Atlanta, Georgia, where "Southern charm meets big city energy". Home of the world famous Coca Cola, where the music is "soulful and the vibe is electric". Atlanta is the birthplace of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and is home to many musicians, including, OutKast, The Indigo Girls, The Black Crowes, Usher, Gladys Knight, CeeLo Green, Ludacris,T.I., and country duo, Sugarland."

Who's your favorite artist in the list of Atlanta singers above? Let us know in the comments.

Yesterday, the Project Harmony Transition Age Choir performed their second showcase of the school year! The choir features students from Wakefield Public Schools's POST Academy and Stoneham Public Schools SHINE program.

We had a cheering crowd of family, friends, teachers, and community members attend. The theme of the showcase was Movies and TV shows. Some familiar tunes that performers shared were “How Far I’ll Go” from Moana, “I’ll Be There For You” from Friends, and “Can’t Stop The Feeling” from Trolls.

Were you in the audience? Let us know what your favorite song from the performance was!